ABSTRACT
This chapter considers some different ways to think about the possibility and purpose of moral education in the secular university, and begins to defend the claim that educating for moral knowledge is part of the secular university's truly liberal educative enterprise. It discusses that studying Christian theology fosters the pursuit of wisdom, it also fosters the pursuit of the knowledge of ultimate truths that secular-university citizenry need in order to deeply understand the good life and how it ought to be led. If the secular university were to seek to educate for morality it would inevitably end up imposing a particular moral outlook on its constituents, which not all of its constituents share. Better, then, for the secular university to refrain from educating for morality, and let fundamental questions about the moral life be left unaddressed or addressed by its citizenry and the varying moral communities of which they are a part.
